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The company plans to divest a drug it has made for 40 years, citing increasing production costs and falling prices.
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Corsera Health’s Chief Operating Officer Rena Denoncourt and CFO Meredith Kaya speak with BioSpace about the biotech’s mission and vision for the next generation of cardiovascular care.
Billions of dollars’ worth of cancer drugs are discarded each year. Manufacturers must refund Medicare for some of this waste. A data-driven approach offers a practical path to greater efficiency.
Sales of Merck’s longtime oncology blockbuster Keytruda will erode more starkly in about 2033 rather than 2029, predicts Bloomberg Intelligence, translating to some $22 billion more in revenue.
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Following the FDA’s refusal to review Moderna’s investigational mRNA flu vaccine last week, Commissioner Marty Makary faced questions from the U.S. president about the agency’s handling of vaccines. It’s a clear signal that the tension long brewing at the drug regulator has now gone all the way to the top.
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The FDA’s briefing documents found that BrainStorm’s BLA submission for its investigational cell therapy for ALS did not demonstrate evidence of effectiveness and that the manufacturing data was “grossly deficient.”
After dropping an early-stage study more than a year ago, AbbVie has finally terminated its CD47 collaboration with I-Mab, leaving up to $1.3 billion in potential milestone payments on the table.
The losing streak continues for Merck and Eisai with their Keytruda-Lenvima combination failing to improve progression-free survival and overall survival in two late-stage lung cancer studies.
Despite meeting the primary endpoint and eliciting endoscopic improvements in ulcerative colitis, Morphic Therapeutic’s investigational pill underwhelmed investors with its stock plummeting.
ARS Pharmaceuticals, Intarcia Therapeutics and Taysha Gene Therapies this week got stark reminders of the difficulties in getting treatments through the regulator’s approval process.
Recent drug approvals have shone a light on the role that patient advocacy groups can play in the regulatory process—but some experts have questions about the ethics of this influence.
The companies, which are collaborating on a drug combination to treat locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer, announced Friday that their Phase III trial met dual primary endpoints.
The companies’ antibody-drug conjugate improved progression-free survival with a “trend in improvement” for overall survival in patients with HR-positive, HER2-low or negative breast cancer.
A U.S. federal court upheld a prior ruling in favor of Roche’s Genentech, finding that its blockbuster hemophilia treatment Hemlibra did not infringe on patent protections held by Takeda’s Baxalta.
Thursday’s FDA advisory committee rejection is the latest regulatory defeat for the company’s drug-device combo. The panel found that the benefits of the treatment did not outweigh its risks.